April 14 of the Gregorian calendar was the first day, the first of the month of Boishakh, of the year 1423 in the Bangla calendar (Bangabda). The night before, around 11pm, when I was returning home, ...

For a significant period of my youth, I used to live in the United States. While I was there, I, a Bengali from West Bengal, was exposed for the first time to real people from East Bengal, as opposed ...

Put students, television, cricket, Kashmir, and India into a mix and what you typically get is violence or intimidation against Kashmiri students in universities across the Hindi belt. That is usual. ...

Injustice and exclusion flow along various axes: Gender, language, caste, religion, and so on. In the politics of the Indian Union, dismal representation of women, especially women from socio-economic ...

Even before the still-unverified-but-widely-believed-to-be-authentic footage by Narada showing top Trinamool leaders, including some very senior minsiters and MPs, accepting bundles of hard cash and t ...

Even a few months ago, if one were to do election forecasting in West Bengal, few would have predicted any contest.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) led by Mamata Banerjee was widely seen as the undisp ...

The now-legendary fall of the CPI(M)-led Left Front government in West Bengal was read by many as the final nail in the demise of left-wing ideologies in West Bengal. For many, it was the moment when ...